April 27 Open Thread: The More He Talks, the More He Accidentally Reveals
Pundits are still buzzing over Trump’s disastrous phone-in interview on yesterday’s “Fox & Friends,” which triggered two court filings by the end of the day. Prosecutors are in luck; Kellyanne Conway appeared on the show today to say Trump loved it and wants to do it every month. How any Republican can listen to yesterday’s manic logorrhea and think it’s anything but the ravings of a madman is a question historians will spend years trying to answer.
Candidates who want the lunatic’s endorsement in the midterms must answer an “Opinion Leader Questionnaire” from the Office of Political Affairs, with eight yes-or-no questions to fill out and space to elaborate on their reasoning. No word on how many candidates have asked for Trump’s endorsement.
What kind of shitheel is Paul Ryan? The kind who would fire the chaplain for the House of Representatives without an explanation. The priest who was canned is speaking out about it.
Adam Serwer at the Daily Beast makes the case that Bill Cosby was done in by his own public moralizing. The judge who unsealed the original settlement with Andrea Constand cited Cosby’s public image as a moral arbiter in doing so, and the avalanche of bad publicity that brought him down ensued.
It’s one thing to be hungry for higher office. It’s quite another to drool all over the tablecloth, which is pretty much what Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is doing in her lust for the presidency. She introduced a post-office banking bill this week, which sounds great and progressive, except that in doing so she bigfooted a four-year effort to achieve the same goal without having to go through Congress, where Republicans are universally opposed to the idea.
Authorities confirmed they used information from a genealogy service to find the Golden State Killer, an ex-cop whose DNA was not on record. Some genealogy services, concerned about losing business over privacy issues, were quick to distance themselves from the case. Such good citizens, those corporations, eh?
Well shit…I guess nothing matters. Because ..”.LOL ! Trump, what an idiot.”
Anyway…Not that it matters, but that questioannire reverts to the “muslim ban” wording that was struck down by the Supreme Court.
“Do you support or oppose President Trump’s Executive Order to suspend the issuance of visas and other immigration benefits to nationals of countries of Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen?”
I heard a great interview yesterday on NPR with Ian Bremmer. He said something I now agree with. It is not Trump voter’s fault. It is the selfish Establishment’s fault. They have sat back for decades and ignored the struggles of ordinary people. Ordinary people have now had enough and are desperate for a solution to their struggles. At the same time ordinary people are misled by outfits like FOXNews that spread wholesale lies and propaganda. It is despicable, but we can turn this around, rid ourselves of FOXNews, and get relief legitimately by being active voters and observers.y people. Ordinary people have now had enough and are desperate for a solution to their struggles.
Dude, you are a bitter commie.
Getting rid of Faux propaganda won’t do it, can’t leave out Sinclair, Rush, Breitbart, Newsmax, OAN and others just as bad some worse than Faux. Corporations owning our media is not what our democracy permits. We need the Fairness Doctrine back, at the very least.
The GOP has always been for the super rich and corporate america. Never stood with working people or middle class. This is class warfare ala Ayn Rand!
“Corporations owning our media is not what our democracy permits.”
Oh, come on. There is nothing in any document you can cite that bans corporate ownership of media.
The press at the time of the First Amendment was pure, unadulterated propaganda, no less biased than any of the RWNJ sites you listed, not at all above printed pure fiction, much of it libelous, about the opposition.
“Hello, Paul Ryan?” “Yes?” “This is Pope Francis, Paul. You fired my priest. He was spreading my message. Let’s just say that as of now, your soul is in mortal danger.” [sound of projectile release of stool] “I know that sound, Paul. That is the sound of shit hitting custom tailored blended wool. I have that effect on Catholics like you.”